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99th_Monkey

(19,326 posts)
Wed Sep 30, 2015, 05:54 PM Sep 2015

Screw Benghazi. Screw the emails. Let the Dem Candidates debate REAL issues!

So with the upcoming debate, I'm hoping that finally Clinton, Sanders & O'Malley (and others) can finally
start discussing REAL issues that voters actually care about, issues that have a profound effect on their
lives, such as income disparity, ending mass incarceration & private prisons, addressing institutional racism
and ending the epidemic of police murdering POC, Citizens United, TPP, Climate Change, moving away from
fossil fuels to sustainable energy, etc.

Is this too much to ask? Or will ^these^ issues continue to be somehow ignored & shunted

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Screw Benghazi. Screw the emails. Let the Dem Candidates debate REAL issues! (Original Post) 99th_Monkey Sep 2015 OP
Who said the debates would be about Benghazi or the emails? djean111 Sep 2015 #1
No one has said, to my knowledge, that debates will be about Benghazi & emails. 99th_Monkey Sep 2015 #2
 

djean111

(14,255 posts)
1. Who said the debates would be about Benghazi or the emails?
Wed Sep 30, 2015, 05:59 PM
Sep 2015

It is the GOP who will use that stuff if Hillary is the nominee.
We don't care about that crap, but GOP voters will.

 

99th_Monkey

(19,326 posts)
2. No one has said, to my knowledge, that debates will be about Benghazi & emails.
Wed Sep 30, 2015, 06:08 PM
Sep 2015

I'm just looking at how the M$M has -- so far -- dodged and weaved around real issues,
to focus 90% of their Dem Primary coverage on Clinton emails, and on non-candidate Biden's
"is he or isn't he running?" daily update.

Who decides what issues will be discussed during debates? CNN or DNC or .. ?

I'm not assuming anything at this point, I just wonder how this stuff gets decided, and would
like some assurance that the debates are going to be email/Benghazi-free. I'm hoping someone
might know more about how this works than I do, and enlighten me.

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